[Various locations in California: ca. 1942-1950]. Twelve leaves, illustrated with seventy-four photographs between 2.5 x 2.5 and 5 x 3.75 inches, and a few ephemeral items. Oblong large quarto. Contemporary brown limp textured cloth, string tied, front cover with "Photographs" in gilt at bottom right. Minor dust soiling to boards..... More
[Korea: 1969-1970]. [15] leaves, illustrated with 108 color or black-and-white photographs, between 3 x 2.5 and 8 x 10 inches, plus various ephemeral items and three pages signed by dozens of fellow soldiers. Oblong folio. Contemporary photograph album bound in red lacquered boards, backed in black cloth, string tied. Moderate..... More
![Item #3308 Information for Movement of 806th Pioneer Infantry for Overseas Duty [cover title]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3308_01.JPG?v=1654706046)
[N.p., likely Camp Funston, Ks. ca. 1918]. 44pp. Original gray printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, some adhesive remnants and small abrasions on rear wrapper, likely resulting from removal from a scrapbook, previous owner's signature on front wrapper, "W.E. Howard." Soft vertical crease throughout. A pocket-sized book of regulations governing the..... More
![Item #3031 True Sons of Freedom [caption title]. African Americana, World War I](/pictures/thumb/3031.jpg?v=1654783853)
Chicago: Charles Gustrine, 1918. Chromolithographed poster, approximately 20 x 16 inches. Minor creasing, a few small chips to edges, one small chip to image area. Framed under tinted glass, not examined outside the frame. A notable uplift poster honoring the brave contributions of African-American soldiers who fought during World War..... More
![Item #3249 [Collection of Photographs of an African-American Military Family in Japan]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3249.JPG?v=1663341783)
[Japan: 1957-1959]. Eighty-seven original photographs, varying small formats, but most 3.5 x 3.5 or 3 x 4.5 inches. Some dampstaining to a few images. Contemporary manuscript captions and adhesive remnants on versos. Otherwise, clean and crisp images with only scattered minor wear. An engaging group of almost ninety original images..... More
[Mainly Germany: 1961-1964]. Twenty-two leaves, illustrated with ninety-one photographs in corner mounts, the first forty captioned in white ink on the album leaves. Oblong quarto. Contemporary red fabrikoid, belt bound, paper label on spine. Decorative stamping on front cover has faded significantly. Minor edge wear and soiling, top corner of..... More
Great Lakes, Ill. 1945. Two panoramic photographs, 10 x 19.25 and 8 x 18.25 inches. Minor wear at corners; lower left corner of larger image partially stripped. Minor toning and dust soiling. A striking set of two panoramic photographs that comprise official portraits of African-American Naval Company 771 at the..... More
[Amchitka & Anchorage, Ak. 1944]. 111 original photographs, measuring from 2.5 x 3.5 to 3.5 x 5 inches. Oblong folio album, string-tied; leatherette boards, front embossed and color stamped. Manuscript captions on album leaves; photos in corner mounts. A bit of soiling and wear to album leaves, fading to some..... More
[Nogales, Az.]: 1916. 71 original photographs, most 3.5 x 5.5 inches or slightly smaller. Quarto album, limp leatherette covers. Cloth worn, hinges cracked, spine chipped. Photos in corner mounts, with extensive manuscript captions on album leaves and blank image versos. Adhesive of corner mounts beginning to fail, some photos loose..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta de la Escuela Correccional, 1899. 62pp. Original pebbled cloth, front board printed in black. Light wear and soiling to cloth. Contemporary ownership annotation on title page; former institutional ink stamp on internal leaf. Even tanning internally. Scarce Mexican edition of the Laws of War as formulated by..... More
San Antonio: [ca. 1916]. Ten original photographs, plus two real photo postcards. Most 3 x 5 inches, one smaller. Occasional, very minor wear. Images generally crisp and clean. A collection of ten photographs that depict activities of F Troop of the 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment on the border with Mexico..... More
Rosenberg, Tx. 1918. 48pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Light wear and dust soiling. Final leaves toned. An interesting piece of Texana: a collection of poetry written in Czech and published in Rosenberg, Texas. The town of Rosenberg, located near Houston, was founded in 1883 with the arrival of the Santa Fe..... More
Memphis: Memphis Bulletin, 1863. Small broadside, 8 x 4.5 inches. Previously folded. Short separation along top fold. Light tanning and foxing. An unrecorded Civil War song sheet that celebrates the accomplishments of the 11th Missouri Volunteers and several other regiments in the XVI Corps of the U.S. Army of the..... More
New Orleans: December 26, 1862. [1]p. Old folds, short closed edge tear, one repaired edge tear. A rare general order from the Department of the Gulf, issued by Major General Nathaniel Banks as he was taking over command of the Union's western forces in December 1862. This order, dated December..... More
![Item #2769 Sabine Cross Roads, Near Mansfield, La. [caption title]. Civil War, William R. Moore](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2769.JPG?v=1645546092)
[Most likely Baton Rouge or New Orleans, La. 1864 or 1865]. Printed broadside, 14.25 x 6.25 inches, with text printed in two columns inside a decorative border. Old folds, even toning, minor foxing and creasing, small marginal chip to left margin. A Civil War commemorative poem in forty quatrains memorializing..... More
[Various locations in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas: 1862-1866]. About 200 autograph letters, signed, totaling over 600 pages, including both war-date letters and manuscript letters dated before the Civil War, mostly written in ink, with a few in pencil, most with original transmittal envelopes; plus five photographs and several other..... More
Pittsburgh: Bakewell & Marthens, 1868. 57pp. Original front wrapper present, most of spine and whole rear wrapper perished. Front wrapper chipped and stained, long closed vertical tear. Title page stained, minor foxing or thumb-soiling to a few leaves, one short closed tear to outer margin of one leaf, light crease..... More
[Baton Rouge]: 1937. 184,[4]pp., plus four related ephemeral items laid in. Oblong folio. Original yellow illustrated wrappers printed in red and black. Minor edge wear, light dust soiling. Last two leaves detached. An elaborately-produced annual memorializing the Third District of the Civilian Conservation Corps located at Fort Devens, illustrated with..... More
[Syracuse? ca. 1910]. [2],165 leaves plus six illustrations. Typescript. Quarto. Original green buckram, spine gilt. Minor wear to binding. Negligible soiling to contents, scattered manuscript corrections and notations to text. Unpublished novel by former Union officer and author Captain George K. Collins. Collins (1837-1931) was raised in Syracuse, where he..... More
Bogotá: Imprenta del Neo-Grandina, 1855. 65pp. Large octavo. Original printed wrappers, rear lacking. Final leaf detached; Moderate creasing and wear at edges. Contemporary bookseller's ink stamp inside front wrapper. Light tanning and scattered foxing. In this scarce pamphlet, the suspended governor of Cartagena, Juan Jose Nieto, defends himself against charges..... More
Havana, Cuba: 1901. Original three-color ink artwork on light brown cloth, 7.25 x 19 inches. Light soiling, minor staining on verso. An elaborate piece of Christmas-time trench art created by Harry W. Loud, Sergeant of the 22nd Company of the Coastal Artillery while stationed in Havana, Cuba in the wake..... More
[New Orleans: ca. December 24, 1862]. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Minor creasing, a couple of short closed edge tears, light fraying to bottom edge, three small tape repairs to inner fold. An extraordinary document issued by General Nathaniel Banks in New Orleans on Christmas Eve, 1862, in which..... More
[Various locations, including California, Hawaii, and the Philippines. 1917-1942]. [85]pp., mostly folio sheets. Some light wear, a few sheets torn with no loss. Some with manuscript signatures or small notations. Archive of papers relating to the military career of Colonel Alva F. Englehart, spanning two World Wars and the entirety..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Escalante, 1887. vi,216pp., plus folding plate. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Spine and edges somewhat worn; boards scuffed. Even tanning, occasional faint foxing. Folding plate with some heavier toning in places. Uncommon medical manual on military hygiene by Alberto Escobar, a 19th-century Mexican army..... More
Apalachicola, Fl. April 8 and June 21, 1840. [1],[1]pp., the first with an integral blank addressed in manuscript and with Apalachicola postal stamp. Original folds, minor toning and soiling. A pair of letters written by George Winslow while working in Florida during the latter years of the Second Seminole War..... More